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Performing opposition : modern theater and the scandalized audience
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Performing opposition : modern theater and the scandalized audience

Author: Neil Martin Blackadder
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, ©2003.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Neil Martin Blackadder
ISBN: 0275980561 9780275980566
OCLC Number: 51210310
Description: xvii, 228 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction : modern theater scandals and the evolution of the theatrical event -- "Are we in a brothel here, or a theater?" : resisting naturalism, Hauptmann's Before Sunrise -- "Down with Lugné chamber pot!" :playing with the taboo, Jarry's Ubo Roi -- "This is not Irish life!" : defending national identity, Synge's The Playboy of the Western World -- "A slander on the citizen army!" : vindicating fallen heroes, O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars -- "Pfui!" : disdaining experimentation, Brech during the Weimar Republic : In the Jungle, Baal, Lehrstück, Mahagonny, and A Man's Man.
Responsibility: Neil Blackadder.

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